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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2010 Dec 16;15(2):85–93. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.11.004

Figure 2.

Figure 2

(A) Emotional conflict across a variety of experimental paradigms is associated with activation in the dorsal ACC/mPFC. (B) Decreasing negative emotion through reappraisal is associated with preferential activation of the dorsal ACC/mPFC. Targets of amygdalar connectivity during tasks involving appraisal/expression (C) or regulation (D) of negative emotion. Positive connectivity is seen primarily during appraisal/expression tasks, and most heavily in the dorsal ACC/mPFC. By contrast, negative connectivity is seen most heavily in the ventral ACC/mPFC across both appraisal/expression and regulation tasks. These connectivity findings are therefore consistent with the dorsoventral functional-anatomical parcellation of the ACC/mPFC derived from activation analyses.